The effectiveness of wing chun is due to the fact that it is a system, It can be broken down to small bits and duplicated. Because it was structured to be taught and mastered in a short period of time the system lends itself to being taught and passed on easily. But keep note [...]
Every Journey starts with the single step…The hardest part of the journey is staking that initial step. No matter where you are in your wing chun training there are times where you want to stop, feel like you are not progressing. This is the time where you just need to buckle down. It during the [...]
The hardest part of any martial art is getting started. Everything is new and exciting and from not knowing anything to suddenly becoming a lethal weapon is very exciting. Then sometime into your training you hit a rut. A plateau. Here are some quick tips to get you going. 1) Practicing on the [...]
One of the most exciting things you will do in your wing Chun training is putting what you learn into practice. No I don’t mean walking the streets and coming across a fight or causing one, only hoping you will be attacked so you can show the world what you have learned. One of [...]
I recently came across an article that Robert Downey Jnr had taken up Wing Chun training as part of his preparation for the his role as the legendary Sherlock Holmes . If you haven’t heard he is one of the most talented if not troubled actors of our time. Unfortunately most of his [...]
Perhaps my favourite technique of wing chun training is the fact that it focuses on body mechanics and distils fighting down to a science. It takes the emotion out of it and deals with only what works- and throws out what does not. The first principle in wing chun that I was taught [...]
Perhaps the hardest part to any martial arts is beginning. Making the decision and walking into a kwoon (school) and taking action, to suit up and arrive to participate can be very intimidating. This can be more so intimidating for women, especially when confronted with a class full of guys who are bigger stronger [...]
Your ego can be a crippling thing paying less attention to it is the first step in mastering your wing chun training or any martial art Behind our ego lies a subtle intelligence or a basic human emotion that is primal in nature. It’s is part of our DNA If [...]
Out of your wing chun training the most dynamic of the wing chun forms Bill jee was designed to be the last form of attack and the most lethal. For the uninitiated bill jee is form and system designed for finger strikes. It is the last form you will learn in your wing [...]
In your wing chun training you will learn to wield the two weapons of wing chun. The 61/2 point pole and the butterfly swords. These two weapons have deep tradition in their own right and have been brought into the wing chun kung fu system by various masters. During the history of wing chun a [...]
